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MC Too Short struggles to fill in some big shoes at a SXSW showcase. Here’s visual evidence on why you MCs need to slow down on them collabos. Rakim didn’t have no guests.
But he never wrote a hook either. Nevermind like Nirvana.
Propers: Rise like The Phoenix
“Get Perez in the back.”
I was listening to Hot 97 when suddenly… DJ Enuff was playin’ one of those heavy dance BPM sets that aren’t my cup of tea when the voice of Kanye West came in the mix. Thankfully, RGP never sleeps.
Here’s Mr. West on the remix of the B-More house heat rock, DJ Class’ “I’m The Shit.”
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“I got them Yeezy’s on my feet/ I got them Louie’s in the store/ And I dropped another album/ Before we finished up the tour/ And it’s still top 10 ’bout 15 weeks later/ So that’s a middle finger ‘fore you 808 haters.”
Props: Big Spanish
Now you kids run along and get that dirty CDQ for me. Thanks. Ha!
Update: That was fast! Legend!
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It actually sounds better clean to me.
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We used to have debates at XXL about whether this really happened or not. Here’s a clip from the infamous 106 and Park episode where the Birdmans (Sr. and Jr.) locked lips. Even though apparently the cameraman missed it. THE MOST EPIC OF FAILS. The legend continues!
“My Ciroc is on the rocks and it’s always Double/So I can lose control I like it baby when I stumble.”
Here comes Cassie again with the Drunken Hot Girls anthem “Let’s Go Crazy” featuring Akon. The voice is still fragile like a young child and the track is straight Pussycat Dolls but who could stay mad at such a cute face. Huh? Not me. Not Diddy. Guess this album’s really coming whether we like it or not.
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I rather rock with the other joint. It’s far from classic but it’s listenable.
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Go wake your granddaddy up from his afternoon nap. Here’s rare footage of Jazzy Jeff proving why he’s the greatest DJ behind the 1’s and 2’s. Tell ’em I said that! Fuck Serato. Ha! And oh yeah, the biggest actor on the globe, Will “Fresh Prince” Smith is in the house too. Peep mo’ vintage madness after the jump!
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There’s nothin’ more gangsta than doin’ an intv in your bathrobe in front of KRS-One. Take that Ghostface Killah!
14 years ago today, we lost Eric Wright to AIDS. Hip-hop will never stop celebrating the life of the West Coast legend. Some of my favorite videos from the O.G. after the break.
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I couldn’t make the official listening party for Asher Roth last night which is why I bugged his mgr Scooter to play me the album a couple of hours before it started. But if I knew some of my favorite niggas in the game we’re gonna show up I might have re-worked my sked. Ha!
Internets! DP tries to DP the man, the myth, the legend above and, after the jump, my homie Mr. Brown also invades the space. Plus listen to him catch wreck over the “College” instrumental.
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So watching this Common freestyle back in Austin I was reminded of this footage I was sittin’ on. Two weeks ago, I saw this post on Please Don’t Stare and when I couldn’t load the video I reached out to the kid who shot it. We all know Com is a master off the head but it seems like he keeps those Lil Wayne references in his cerebellum.
Props: Pharamacist
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